Re: Accidental repeated with ottava

[Mark Knoop]

Following up on this post from the user list:

At 11:24 on 10 Feb 2023, Knute Snortum wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 10:48 AM Mark Knoop <mark@opus11.net> wrote:
>> At 10:38 on 10 Feb 2023, Knute Snortum wrote:
>>> I have run into something in LilyPond that's annoying -- it probably
>>> doesn't rise to the level of bug.  When you have two notes in
>>> different octaves but "on the same level" because of an ottava, the
>>> accidental is repeated.  This makes sense logically because they are
>>> not the same note, but it doesn't look right to me, at least.  Maybe
>>> it's the intended behavior?
>>
>> FWIW, Gould writes:
>>
>> "Repeat an accidental if sounding at a different octave, even when the
>> same pitch is used with an octave sign."

> Okay, so it sounds like it's a desired behavior.  Thanks for looking
> that up for me.

... I noticed that this:

{ aes, \ottava #-1 a,, }

does *not* place a cautionary accidental on the second note. Perhaps is
should or could?

--
Mark Knoop